Decision-making in the older patient with diagnosis of cancer: Sarcopenia and frailty as predictors of toxicity to chemotherapy—ONCOSARCO project. Chemotherapy (CT) for advanced soft tissue sarcoma ...

The aim of this report was to provide quantitative information about the likelihood of a frail patient developing a postoperative complication. The assessment tool was the Hopkins Frailty Score, and ...

New Orleans— An innovative study by Dr. Hernan Bazan at Ochsner Health and colleagues reveals how frailty assessments can accurately predict outcomes in urgent carotid artery interventions for stroke ...

Frailty is associated with increased mortality 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in older patients with severe aortic stenosis, though it does not affect the risk of ...

Frailty begins to accelerate 4 to 9 years before dementia onset and may help identify at-risk populations for prevention strategies. Study: Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK.

Frailty is common in elderly people with cardiovascular disease and goes along with elevated mortality. However, no consensus exists on the definition of frailty. Many scores have been developed to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Frailty was associated with loosening, infection, instability, longer length of stay, readmission and increased ...

A multidimensional frailty score may help predict postoperative outcomes in older adults. More than half of all operations are performed on patients 65 years and older in the United States. Frail ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Combining indices of frailty and trabecular bone score did not yield improved predictive accuracy for major ...

As our population ages and our medical care improves, we have increasing numbers of frail patients. The frail require gentler, longer, and frequently more expensive care. A new study looks at these ...